The Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC), the largest lender by market value, will not raise funds from the capital market in three years as it promised in 2010, Chairman Jiang Jianqing said on Wednesday.
China's banking regulator on Wednesday urged banks to increase lending to affordable housing projects in 2010 in hopes of curbing runaway property prices.
China's Ministry of Finance (MOF) said Wednesday it will sell 30 billion yuan ($4.53 billion) of book-entry Treasury bonds this week.
One-third of China's cross-border trade may be settled in yuan by 2016, as the Chinese government pushes for the internationalization of the currency, said a senior economist with HSBC on Wednesday.
CNHTC Jinan Truck Co Ltd, a Chinese maker of heavy-duty vehicles, said on Thursday that a subsidiary was involved in a bank fraud that could threaten repayment of 500 million yuan ($75 million) worth of deposits.
China's stocks rose Wednesday with the benchmark Shanghai Composite Index up 0.62 percent, or 17.26 points, to finish at 2,821.31 points.
Banking experts said the central bank may raise Chinese commercial banks’ required reserve ratio to tame surging domestic liquidity and inflation, China Securities Journal reported Wednesday.
Value Partners Group Ltd, Hong Kong's largest fund company by assets under management, plans to set up a joint venture on the Chinese mainland to tap its rapidly growing fund industry, Jimmy Chan, the fund's chief executive officer, said on Tuesday.
Chinese banks extended about 600 billion yuan ($91 billion) in new local-currency loans in the first week of 2011, and lending in January could reach 1 trillion yuan, Caijing magazine reported on Wednesday, citing analysts.
Shanghai has launched a pilot scheme allowing qualified foreign institutions to make private equity investment in China, marking an important step in the liberalization of China's capital markets.
Discipline inspection authorities of the Communist Party of China have pledged to target misconduct of officials in the housing sector as soaring prices become a rising concern for the Chinese public.
The Chinese yuan strengthened to a record high against the US dollar on Wednesday to reach 6.6128 per dollar.